Fine Time Fontayne

Fine Time Fontayne
Born Ian Crossley
1951 (age 65–66)
Wombwell, West Riding of Yorkshire,[1] England, UK
Occupation Actor, theatre director

Ian Crossley (born 1951), better known by the stage name Fine Time Fontayne, is an English actor and stage director.

Early life

Fontayne was born in Wombwell, West Riding of Yorkshire[1] into a mining family.[2] In the 1960s, he moved with his parents and brothers to Sheffield, where they ran a pub.[3] He took his stage name when he began singing and playing at a local folk club in Yorkshire.[4] He had previously called himself Ordinary Seaman Whittle.[5] He started acting in the 1970s with the Crucible Vanguard Company.[6]

Career

In the early years of his career Fontayne worked in cabaret, community and repertory theatre, as well as the Red Ladder Theatre Company.[2] He has played a variety of roles in many long-running British TV series such as All Creatures Great and Small, Coronation Street, and Emmerdale. He is a frequent voice in BBC Radio drama (including The Blackburn Files and Street and Lane) and has appeared in films including 24 Hour Party People and Butterfly Kiss.[7][8]

Fontayne appeared in the 2002 radio series The Little World of Don Camillo. He directed a successful production of Sleeping Beauty at the Mercury Theatre, Essex in December 2007 and January 2008.[9] In 2011, he played Claudius in the touring Northern Broadsides production of Hamlet. He has frequently appeared in pantomime at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 South Yorkshire did not exist prior to 1st April 1974. West Riding of Yorkshire is correct
  2. 1 2 "Crossing the Picket Line" (PDF). Marxism Today. Communist Party of Great Britain. June 1985. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "Fine Time Fontayne comes to Hepworth". Huddersfield Examiner. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "In the name of success!". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  5. ↑ All Memories Great & Small, Oliver Crocker (2016; MIWK)
  6. ↑ "Fine Time Fontayne biography". Townsend Productions. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  7. ↑ "Fontayne CV" (PDF). Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  8. ↑ The Blackburn Files at radiolistings.co.uk
  9. ↑ Review of Fontayne's production of The Sleeping Beauty, The Stage


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